Rowdy milliners and lenient guards

The small minority of our milliners on strike had the honor, yesterday as the day before yesterday, of a real military parade. Nearly a hundred republican agents and guards had been mobilized as the day before and gathered at the Place de l'Opéra, where they provoked the admiration of morning passers-by with their fine attire and the dignity of their appearance. From there, they went in squads to the buildings on rue Royale, rue de la Paix and place Vendôme where colorful brigadiers strategically dispersed them.
Such a display of force was a great deal to curb the sedition of a few turbulent people. There are two hundred of them, at most, who persist in their protests, but it must be recognized that they do so without bad humor.
To tell the truth, most of the workshops had retained their activity as buzzing hives, despite rare defections. It was towards these workshops that the different groups of protesters with agile calves directed their assault, attempting to invade them at first glance and disrupt their good order with deafening chatter.
They hardly succeeded. The broad chests of the guards were insurmountable obstacles to them near the porches. There were a few jostles, but the martial protectors of work knew not to abandon their smiles of good giants, the “move along!” with which they swelled their voices, despite themselves becoming tinged with indulgence...
In short, the Saint-Honoré police station, which The strikers leaving the Labor Exchange (Photo Echo de Paris) promised a parade of graceful delinquents, was disappointed there were no arrests and it was barely if the opposing camps did not fraternize.
It all ended with exchanged jokes and the retirement of the fresh faces, who still have difficulty persisting in the role of shrews.

R. D.